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You don't need to be rich. It costs very little to fund a $30k life insurance policy, which will get your whole body suspended with Cryonics Institute. Alcor is

You don't need to be rich. It costs very little to fund a $30k life insurance policy, which will get your whole body suspended with Cryonics Institute. Alcor is more, $80k for just the head.

coldtea 11y ago
>You don't need to be rich. No, but being rich helps with illusions of immortality and going with such a scheme.
- rictic 11y ago
  You've posted four snide and low-content comments on this post. Do you have anything substantive to say, or are you just here to sneer?
  - coldtea 11y ago
    For some subjects, sneering IS the substantive thing to say. Would you expect "substantive comments" to some post about the discovery of a perpetual motion machine or intelligent design?
- woofyman 11y ago
  Except you're dead and all your assets now belong to your heirs or some charity you've set up. If you're revived you'll be broke.
  - coldtea 11y ago
    It's not like you can't setup some special accounts to wait for you for that case if you're rich.
    - woofyman 11y ago
      You can't, you're dead. Whomever you willed your estate to will lay claim to those accounts. Even if they're secret. What ever institution holding those accounts will claim them for themselves. There's no legal precedent for a person returning from the dead.
      - coldtea 11y ago
        >You can't, you're dead Yeah, the idea is to do it before you die. You could e.g. setup a foundation to operate after your death and have in its statue (article of incorporation?) that if you ever return you get them back. Besides technical solutions, like using cryptocurrency or simply burrying your assets somewhere only you know about where they'd be safe. Or use this, if those announcing it got anywhere and weren't scamers: The Reanimation Foundation will, it is said, be the "first cryonics organization to enable individuals signed up for cryonics to take their money with them. It will be able to offer this service because it will be incorporated in Liechtenstein, which has no rule against perpetuities." >There's no legal precedent for a person returning from the dead. How about people being declared legally dead after gone missing and then re-appearing a few decades later. There have been several such cases in the past (sometimes those people got married elsewhere and started a new life, etc).

You don't need to be rich. It costs very little to fund a $30k life insurance policy, which will get your whole body suspended with Cryonics Institute. Alcor is more, $80k for just the head.

coldtea 11y ago

>You don't need to be rich. No, but being rich helps with illusions of immortality and going with such a scheme.

rictic 11y ago
You've posted four snide and low-content comments on this post. Do you have anything substantive to say, or are you just here to sneer?
- coldtea 11y ago
  For some subjects, sneering IS the substantive thing to say. Would you expect "substantive comments" to some post about the discovery of a perpetual motion machine or intelligent design?
woofyman 11y ago
Except you're dead and all your assets now belong to your heirs or some charity you've set up. If you're revived you'll be broke.
- coldtea 11y ago
  It's not like you can't setup some special accounts to wait for you for that case if you're rich.
  - woofyman 11y ago
    You can't, you're dead. Whomever you willed your estate to will lay claim to those accounts. Even if they're secret. What ever institution holding those accounts will claim them for themselves. There's no legal precedent for a person returning from the dead.
    - coldtea 11y ago
      >You can't, you're dead Yeah, the idea is to do it before you die. You could e.g. setup a foundation to operate after your death and have in its statue (article of incorporation?) that if you ever return you get them back. Besides technical solutions, like using cryptocurrency or simply burrying your assets somewhere only you know about where they'd be safe. Or use this, if those announcing it got anywhere and weren't scamers: The Reanimation Foundation will, it is said, be the "first cryonics organization to enable individuals signed up for cryonics to take their money with them. It will be able to offer this service because it will be incorporated in Liechtenstein, which has no rule against perpetuities." >There's no legal precedent for a person returning from the dead. How about people being declared legally dead after gone missing and then re-appearing a few decades later. There have been several such cases in the past (sometimes those people got married elsewhere and started a new life, etc).